Nest - Flyout Sliding Panels for WordPress

Nest - Flyout Sliding Panels for WordPress

Nest is a lightweight WordPress plugin that lets you add animated off canvas sliding panels to any website. Whether you’d like to set up a sliding sidebar, a sliding header or footer, or even a full-screen flyout panel for your WordPress site, Nest’s feature set makes it an absolute and utter breeze.

Not only is Nest easy to set up and use but it’s also very customizable. For example, you can customize a panel’s size and animation speed with pixel and millisecond accuracy. And there are many more features and customization options:

Features

Sliding panel plugin for WordPress

Create WordPress sliding panels to display any content

Site-wide panel with per-post and per-page overrides

Optionally show panel on front page only

Optionally hide panel on specific posts/pages

Apply scaling/opacity animations to specified theme content when a panel is opened/closed

Position activation button top-left, top-right, bottom-left or bottom-right of screen

Give activation button absolute or fixed positioning

Optionally enter activation buttons via shortcode; useful if you’d like to place an activation button inside a post, into a sidebar etc.

Optionally hide activation button (useful for cases where you want to open a panel automatically, enter the activation button via shortcode or use a custom activator)

Close button:

3 close button designs (fully color customizable)

Position close button top-left, center or top-right of panel

Fine-tune close button top/left/right distance

Overlay:

Customize overlay color

Customize overlay opacity

Why would a sliding panel be useful to me?

Sliding panels, sliding bars and sliding sidebars are a fantastic way to display content to your visitors in a memorable way. To give some examples, you can use Nest to display a mailing list sign-up form, alert your audience to an upcoming event, introduce a product, invite feedback from your readers, show off your vacation photos, set up a menu and so on. You really are only limited by your needs and imagination.

With the possibility to show a Nest panel on a specific post or page only and activate it from any element, automatically via time delay or when scrolled to an anchor, Nest can even be used to perform a call-to-action function; absolutely fantastic for marketing purposes.

UPDATE 1.5 (August 02, 2016)
- It is now possible to have the Nest panel activate on its own when a post or page is scrolled to an anchor (ID/class both work)

UPDATE 1.4 (July 26, 2016)
- It is now possible to have the Nest panel open automatically. For example, the panel can be set to open on its own after 10 seconds (time delay is customizable).
- Activation button can now be given absolute positioning (button either scrolls with the page or remains at the specified position at all times)